Black Townships in South Africa

Abstract

The paper provides urban geographers with an introduction to the growing volume of scholarly work that reflects the concern of other social sciences with the Black urban residents of South Africa. Particular reference is made to the emergence of ‘Locations’ and other segregated areas such as the Black freehold townships of Sophiatown, Martindale and Newc1are, and to the slumyards of Johannesburg. Against this background the emergence of controlled “labour pools” in the form of the townships of Soweto is discussed.